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We are a grassroots organization of concerned individuals who have joined forces to try to make Jewish education affordable for every family that wishes to send its children to a Jewish day school in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Read our founding document.

Day school education is the strongest guarantee of lasting, positive Jewish identity in our children. Yet the Greater Toronto Jewish community, like communities in many other cities in North America, is at a crossroads because of the affordability of day school education. The future of the excellent, diverse Jewish educational system in our city is at risk.

Tuition for Jewish day school education in our community is unbearably high:

Elementary school tuition in day schools affiliated with UJA Federation increased by 61 percent from 2001 to 2011, while average household income (in the general population) rose 10 percent.

Full tuition in elementary day schools is currently about $16,000.

Tuition at CHAT, the community high school, increased 62 percent from 2001 to 2011. In 2016-17, CHAT tuition was nearly $28,000.

The implications for the Jewish future of our community are disastrous. The solution to the affordability crisis must come from a fully representative cross section of individuals and organizations within the community.

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